[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Couple Next Door, Season 1 Episode 1, “Welcome to Suburbia.”]
The Couple Subsequent Door has lastly arrived on Starz and it feels as if a ticking time bomb is about to go off in suburbia as couple Danny (Sam Heughan) and Becka (Jessica De Gouw) meet latest neighbors, Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch).
Danny is a visitors cop and Becka’s a yoga teacher, however they’ve bought fairly a progressive view in the case of marriage, agreeing to have an open relationship so long as their extracurricular actions are a gaggle endeavor. That’s fairly a leap from the brand new couple on the block, who’ve been collectively since college and predict a child.
Issues take a startling flip although as Evie, a instructor, is informed by considered one of her college students that she will be able to’t really feel the newborn. This prompts Evie to get a checkup and it’s revealed she’s had a late-term miscarriage. Is that the catalyst for the journey she’ll take this season? Tomlinson teases, “I feel that’s undoubtedly the factor that units it off. I feel that Evie desires to get as distant from her life and her existence as potential. She’s in a lot ache.”
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It’s clear she sees one thing particular in Danny and Becka’s dynamic as she observes their free-loving habits from throughout the road. However what she sees as a distraction from a horribly tragic occasion might additionally spell the demise of her relationship as Pete was instantly suspicious of Danny, regardless of him not displaying any outward preliminary romantic curiosity in Evie.
“It’s undoubtedly all about Pete’s insecurity,” Enoch tells TV Insider. “He sees this muscley and enticing [guy who] rides a motorcycle, and he goes ‘That’s simply an excessive amount of.’ So he sort of hides behind the humor.”
For now, Evie’s fascination with Danny and Becka could also be greater than anybody has bargained for, particularly contemplating a few of the shady actions Danny finds himself wrapped up in. A colleague of Danny’s asks if he desires to make some further money, however that entails some felony exercise that will or could not come again to hang-out him.
“I feel the viewers will definitely make some assumptions about his motives behind why he’s doing this stuff,” Heughan admits of his character. “The explanations behind [the extra job] will not be as black and white as you could suppose. He does make some fairly dangerous selections and he does have fairly a giant secret in life outdoors of his extra conventional one with Becka, which can also be not conventional,” he says with fun.
Whereas Danny finds himself embroiled in some shady work engagements and unknowingly within the crosshairs of Evie, whose attraction to him is hinted at throughout a neighborhood bike trip and longing stare by means of the rain within the episode’s last moments, there’s much more potential hassle brewing within the type of Alan (Hugh Dennis).
He’s one other member of the neighborhood, and it’s clear fairly early on that this man has an obsession with Danny’s spouse, Becka. Together with taking her yoga courses, Alan has managed to make fairly a setup for himself within the upstairs of his residence, utilizing a telescope to spy on Becka when she’s out and about, and lurking on social media.
“I feel Alan throughout the highway is kind of malevolent presence — she encounters him and actually misreads him,” De Gouw says of Becka’s stalker. “There’s an enormous consequence to that by way of the best way that he feels it as a rejection. She’s seen on-line, and that’s her enterprise. After which there’s this one who seems like he’s been wronged and subsequently goes to very strategically punish her for it.”
How will all of it play out? You’ll should hold tuning in to see it unfold as The Couple Subsequent Door airs on Starz.
The Couple Subsequent Door, Fridays, 9/8c, Starz
